‘Nigdy Wiêcej’, the ‘Never Again’ Organisation, calls on civil society organisations to to support their appeal to the Allegro auction e-platform to remove any auctions of racial, xenophobic and neo-fascist character, which are currently in disguise labelled ‘collector’s’. Weekly, there are 20-40 auctions of this kind in the music section only. For more information, contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE is preparing its 2009 annual report on hate crimes. The report provides an overview of data collected on hate crimes as well as of responses to combat hate crimes.

The Social Platform reacted strongly to the European Commission’s overview of the responses received to its consultation on the EU2020 Agenda, as the document incorrectly states that social NGOs support the Commission's EU 2020 proposals.

ENAR issued a press release on 11 February, on the day of an informal EU summit to discuss, among others, the future “EU2020” strategy, calling on EU governments to adopt a strategy that puts the well-being of people, equality, anti-discrimination and social cohesion at its heart.

A report on a seminar which discussed the application of community law and the use of public procurement in the field of social services, organised by SOLIDAR together with 7 other European networks of social service providers, has been issued.